Jah Hut (Jah Het) is an Austroasiatic language spoken around the Krau river in peninsular Malaysia . The Jah Hut are one of the indigenous Orang Asli peoples.
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10-637: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jah Hut language Jah Hut belongs to the Aslian branch of the Austroasiatic language family. Previously thought to be a member of the Central Aslian sub-branch, Jah Hut is now considered an isolate . Dialects Jah Hut has 9 vowels and 19 consonants. Jah Hut does not contain open major syllables in word-final positions. Conversely,
15-496: The agent of the act can be found in a prefixed or infixed -n , depending on the root of the given word. i.e. bilit , or wrapping, compared to bnilit , meaning the act of wrapping. In Jah Hut, all complements but the direct object require a preposition and, like many Aslian languages, verb usage in Jah Hut is restricted generally to strings of no more than 2 verbs, with the first verb referencing some form of motion, with
20-673: The language contains 15 consonants that can be used to close a syllable. Further, in the context in which a nasalized vowel or consonant occurs earlier in a given word, the final stop is broken down into a nasal and glottal stop . Does not contain restrictions on non-homorganic stop clusters, meaning that many words begin with consonants that don’t phonetically match. (i.e. words that begin with ‘tk’ or ‘bk’). This pattern can be found in many other Aslian languages. Jah Hut varies from other Mon-Khmer languages in that it contains little-to-no phonetic vowel length. It also uses causative prefixes that are composed by p- or –r- . By using this,
25-406: The speaker is able to indicate that a specific something or someone causes something or someone to be or do something else. Similarly, the prefix -m allows the user of the language to assign an act to a person. For example, lyep , in Jah Hut, means "to plait palm leaves", while mlayep is translated as, "one who plaits". On the other hand, when an act does not involve a person directly,
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